Like other products in the Splashtop family, this app lets you put your desktop’s OS — in this case, Microsoft Windows 8 Consumer Preview –on your mobile device with minimal latency, CEO Cliff Miller told aNewDomain.net staffers. For $25, getting the experience of most Metro UI functionality on your iPad is a lot of bang for the buck. And it spares you having to buy or carry around the Win 8 developer tablet Microsoft provides when you already have an iPad, too.

Not surprisingly, the Win8 Metro Testbed doesn’t completely leverage either platform. We’d be surprised if it did. It doesn’t support the iPad’s camera — and your Metro Style UI apps will only work at 1024 x 768. No retina display for you.

You also don’t get the side-by-side Snap functionality.

That said, the app provides a surprising amount of Metro UI functionality, including multitasking, audio and video streaming, multi-touch gesture, and most of the swipe functionality Windows 8 Metro Style UI provides.